'Tales From Monographic Oceans': a free-spirited journey through a stretch of sea, cutting across the isthmuses of some discographies
(Mike Scott/Waterboys vs. Karl Wallinger/World Party 46, 8)
'God makes them, then he matches them.' Then, unfortunately, he 'splits them' (Unfortunately? Fortunately!) The too-similar (brilliant) yet too-different who met and then parted ways, choosing to pursue 'their own thing', namely: Great British Music in all its forms and derivations (rock but also wave, pop but also soul, authorial folk but also traditional, Beatles but also Patti Smith, Springsteen but also Prince...)
World Party -Way Down Now